[MPlayer-users] Capture: video buffer full - dropping frame

[Loren Merritt]

eyagerlist at chartermi.net wrote:

>> What does "video buffer full - dropping frame" mean?
> 
> It means that your computer can't encode the video fast enough to keep up 
> with the video capture card.  If it can't keep up, it will simply start 
> throwing pieces of the video away to catch up.  When you play the video 
> back you will notice many freezes in video and jerky motion.  Also huffyuv
> is very slow and possibly even broken.  Even on a very fast computer I
> wouldn't expect it to work.

Slow? Broken? On my Barton 2500, huffyuv encodes 720x480 at ~280 fps 
(compare to decoding mjpeg, which is ~130 fps), and my harddrive can keep 
up with ~60 fps. And I've never seen it break.

--Loren Merritt